Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evil. Women's rights is an unpopular theme, especially among mediocre men . . . When we ask for freedom, they call us unfeminine. My God, no. We are so feminine that we are fighting for the survival of our own sex." Seora Formica, elegantly gowned and coiffured, flashed a warm smile. "If we were still in the harems, I'd be the first to enjoy a life of leisure midst the flowers and birds. In fact, I'd make all efforts to be the favorite...
...insurance companies and six news papers, including the influential Times of India. He is said to be India's third rich est industrialist.* Along the way, Dalmia has come to believe that he is indeed one among men, possessing unusual spiritual qualities. "I shall die peacefully with a smile on my face, "he once wrote, "an enviable state unattainable by ordinary men." And in the style of Indian saintly ones, he is always ready to confess his past misdeeds. Three years ago Dalmia confessed that he had made a big contribution to a government chanty, expecting that he would...
...gold bars. In 1938 I got enough gold. When Hitler started strutting around. I, Sacha, marched out." Somehow-he won't say how-he got his money to Canada in 1939. How did he get to the U.S.? "I buy a brand-new Cadillac," he tells with a smile, "cross the border and drive to Los Angeles." Says Sacha Wolanow, fingering a three-carat diamond ring: "I am going to buy and buy until I'm the biggest real-estate man in America. I will make Zeckendorf* look like peanuts...
...lost: the local priest to whom he confesses his sins. "No human being is damned," the priest says. "You must realize the astonishing nature of that grace whose beneficiary you are." At the end, sick of a mortal illness, "the murderer lay . . . with a smile of heavenly peace upon his lips," and said, "I am dying in peace ... in a peace beyond imagining...
...essential factor in the Wassermann and other tests. Dr. Heidelberger and his associates (he is now professor of immunochemistry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons) found chemical ways of making guinea-pig serum go twice as far. As he puts it. with a dry smile: "Rivers of guinea-pig blood could have been saved if these methods had been known 50 years ago." He is too modest to add that millions of blood tests now performed in research laboratories every day are simpler, quicker, cheaper, and vastly more reliable than ever before. Also, researchers preparing...